From: Oleh Krehel <ohwoeowho@gmail.com>
To: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
Cc: Andrew Hyatt <ahyatt@gmail.com>,
johnw@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org,
monnier@iro.umontreal.ca
Subject: Re: Entering Unicode characters
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 09:38:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87twm0ag6f.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wpqxbi4h.fsf@mbork.pl> (Marcin Borkowski's message of "Mon, 25 Jan 2016 19:59:10 +0100")
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Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> writes:
> On 2016-01-25, at 16:37, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> wrote:
>> That is useless in practice, because it requires users to know these
>> long and often obscure names. When I wanted to do this, I was unable
>> to do it with C-x 8. I was totally stumped! All I could do was try
>> to find a file which had the character I wanted.
>>
> Have you heard about autocompletion?
Here is the current capability of `counsel-unicode-char' which is
included in the GNU ELPA swiper package. Note how the regex boundaries
"\b" are used to closely match the letter "a".
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This command is meant to do the same as `insert-char' does.
The only issue is that the built-in `ucs-names' variable, which is
offered for completion, includes around 40000 entries. Maybe there
should be a way for the user to turn off the Unicode ranges she's never
interested in (see the division of ranges in the `nxml-unicode-blocks'
variable). In the included screenshot, I've already disabled some
ranges that aren't interesting for me - my font doesn't have glyphs for
a large portion of these.
Another issue I've found when shortly examining the Unicode table is
that it provides these three categories:
1. Plain letters,
2. Composition characters, like COMBINING GRAVE ACCENT, COMBINING ACUTE
ACCENT etc.,
3 Plain letters pre-combined with the above composition chars.
So maybe the user should decide if she prefers to have 1+2 or 1+3 or
1+2+3, the latter option significantly increasing the number of
completion candidates (by around 2500).
Oleh
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-26 8:38 UTC|newest]
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2016-01-11 3:09 A proposal for removing obsolete packages Andrew Hyatt
2016-01-11 14:41 ` Phillip Lord
2016-01-11 15:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-12 4:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-01-19 5:28 ` John Wiegley
2016-01-20 2:54 ` Richard Stallman
2016-01-20 7:25 ` John Wiegley
2016-01-20 17:05 ` Andrew Hyatt
2016-01-20 17:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-20 19:52 ` John Wiegley
2016-01-20 20:38 ` Andrés Ramírez
2016-01-20 20:46 ` John Wiegley
2016-01-20 20:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-20 21:03 ` Andrés Ramírez
2016-01-21 3:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-23 21:22 ` Andrew Hyatt
2016-01-21 3:02 ` Richard Stallman
2016-01-23 21:15 ` Andrew Hyatt
2016-01-23 22:03 ` Drew Adams
2016-01-24 1:02 ` Andrew Hyatt
2016-01-24 1:08 ` Andrew Hyatt
2016-01-24 1:56 ` Drew Adams
2016-01-24 21:44 ` Andrew Hyatt
2016-01-25 2:37 ` Drew Adams
2016-01-25 1:42 ` Richard Stallman
2016-01-25 4:41 ` Andrew Hyatt
2016-01-25 15:37 ` Entering Unicode characters Richard Stallman
2016-01-25 16:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-25 17:20 ` Vivek Dasmohapatra
2016-01-25 17:51 ` Teemu Likonen
2016-01-25 20:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-26 1:24 ` Vivek Dasmohapatra
2016-01-26 3:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-25 18:59 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-01-25 19:28 ` Drew Adams
2016-01-26 8:38 ` Oleh Krehel [this message]
2016-01-25 21:36 ` Tianxiang Xiong
2016-01-25 22:17 ` Drew Adams
2016-01-25 22:26 ` Tianxiang Xiong
2016-01-26 9:39 ` Richard Stallman
2016-01-26 10:55 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2016-01-26 14:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-26 14:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-01-26 21:41 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2016-01-27 3:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-27 6:01 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2016-01-28 23:16 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2016-01-29 8:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-29 15:51 ` handa
2016-01-29 16:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-29 16:24 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-01-30 3:03 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2016-01-30 7:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-30 7:36 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2016-01-30 7:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-30 12:16 ` handa
2016-01-30 13:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-27 0:47 ` Richard Stallman
2016-01-26 11:31 ` Yuri Khan
2016-01-27 0:46 ` Richard Stallman
2016-01-26 12:40 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-01-26 15:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-27 0:47 ` Richard Stallman
2016-01-26 17:08 ` Tianxiang Xiong
2016-01-26 17:37 ` Drew Adams
2016-01-26 18:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-01-26 18:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-06 11:56 ` Helmut Eller
2016-02-06 12:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-06 13:59 ` Helmut Eller
2016-02-06 14:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-12 11:20 ` Helmut Eller
2016-02-07 18:33 ` Richard Stallman
2016-02-07 18:42 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-02-08 14:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-02-08 14:25 ` Andreas Schwab
2016-02-09 12:14 ` Richard Stallman
2016-02-09 17:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-10 0:12 ` Richard Stallman
2016-02-10 17:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-11 18:19 ` Richard Stallman
2016-02-07 22:02 ` John Wiegley
2016-02-08 13:02 ` Richard Stallman
2016-02-08 17:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-09 12:14 ` Richard Stallman
2016-02-09 13:26 ` Dale Snell
2016-02-10 0:11 ` Richard Stallman
2016-02-09 17:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-09 6:01 ` Alexis
2016-02-09 15:21 ` Drew Adams
2016-02-10 0:11 ` Richard Stallman
2016-02-10 1:16 ` Alexis
2016-02-10 14:16 ` Richard Stallman
2016-02-11 18:59 ` John Wiegley
[not found] ` <<E1aTINY-0007Rg-IA@fencepost.gnu.org>
2016-02-10 2:07 ` Drew Adams
2016-02-10 4:14 ` Elias Mårtenson
2016-02-10 14:15 ` Richard Stallman
2016-02-10 0:08 ` Richard Stallman
2016-02-10 4:17 ` Jose E. Marchesi
2016-02-08 14:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-02-12 11:32 ` Helmut Eller
2016-02-13 15:32 ` Richard Stallman
[not found] ` <<E1aO05V-0007eR-Kw@fencepost.gnu.org>
2016-01-26 16:58 ` Drew Adams
2016-01-25 13:01 ` A proposal for removing obsolete packages Stefan Monnier
2016-01-26 9:36 ` Richard Stallman
2016-01-26 10:30 ` Andreas Schwab
2016-01-27 0:46 ` Richard Stallman
2016-01-27 1:03 ` Alexis
2016-01-27 22:53 ` Richard Stallman
2016-01-27 8:41 ` Andreas Schwab
2016-01-25 15:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <<m2a8nu46ff.fsf@gmail.com>
[not found] ` <<E1aNjCP-0004Ya-Si@fencepost.gnu.org>
2016-01-25 16:04 ` Entering Unicode characters Drew Adams
2016-01-25 16:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-01-26 16:43 ` A proposal for removing obsolete packages John Wiegley
2016-01-26 17:32 ` John Wiegley
2016-02-03 4:45 ` Andrew Hyatt
2016-01-12 5:25 ` Andrew Hyatt
2016-01-12 4:07 ` Richard Stallman
2016-01-12 5:25 ` Andrew Hyatt
2016-01-12 21:49 ` Richard Stallman
2016-01-14 5:19 ` Andrew Hyatt
2016-01-17 22:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-01-14 23:09 ` Phillip Lord
2016-01-16 4:13 ` Andrew Hyatt
2016-01-16 19:10 ` Richard Stallman
2016-01-18 18:47 ` Andrew Hyatt
2016-01-19 13:51 ` Richard Stallman
2016-01-19 14:54 ` Phillip Lord
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